Recent content by JollyRgr

Generally use cardboard. When I bought my Volvo 245 in 1999, and I could slide right under it on cardboard. These days, my stomach gets caught (sagging springs?) So I need to use jack stands or ramps. Saving pennies for quick Jack's...I'll try a creeper with those Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus...

From what I have seen up here west of Austin, you will want to take their advice. The new subdivision going in behind us is using a similar method, along with post-stressing cables. I'm from up North and had to Google the wherefores and whys. The slabs end up looking like a waffle iron lid...

Nice patio, daddy-o! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

If he is here in Central Texas, then there will need to be engineering done. The soils are quite expansive (expensive?). The boys and I were checking out the new subdivision behind us, and the 10-yr old noted that the slab foundation was not really a slab, but the top half of a waffle iron. In a...

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Hey folks, I am in the Austin, TX area and have committed to myself to clean/organize my 2-car garage. Size is maybe 20x20; Mazda 5 minivan parks in there. Over the next few weeks I will be sorting/organizing, and getting rid of things. Anyone here in the Austin Area to potentially trade extra...